ETF comparison
FNCL vs IXG
Both Financials.
Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF · iShares Global Financials ETF
Holdings overlap
76 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of FNCL and IXG would leave roughly 51.3% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
FNCL is 33 bps cheaper than IXG. On a $100,000 position that's about $326/yr more in fees for IXG.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with FNCL vs IXG.
Top shared holdings
76 shared in total| # | Holding | In FNCL | In IXG | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berkshire Hathaway Inc | 7.72% | 6.40% | 6.40% |
| 2 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 10.10% | 5.78% | 5.78% |
| 3 | Visa Inc | 6.59% | 3.70% | 3.70% |
| 4 | Mastercard Inc | 5.04% | 2.97% | 2.97% |
| 5 | Bank of America Corp | 4.34% | 2.36% | 2.36% |
| 6 | Goldman Sachs Group Inc/The | 3.28% | 1.85% | 1.85% |
| 7 | Wells Fargo & Co | 3.06% | 1.79% | 1.79% |
| 8 | Citigroup Inc | 2.71% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 9 | Morgan Stanley | 2.68% | 1.44% | 1.44% |
| 10 | American Express Co | 2.11% | 1.18% | 1.18% |
| 11 | Charles Schwab Corp/The | 1.83% | 1.14% | 1.14% |
| 12 | Blackrock Inc | 1.86% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
Only in FNCL
308 total- LPL Financial Holdings Inc 0.32%
- Markel Group Inc 0.26%
- State Street Global Advisors 0.25%
- SoFi Technologies Inc 0.24%
- Affirm Holdings Inc 0.21%
- East West Bancorp Inc 0.21%
- First Citizens BancShares Inc/NC 0.20%
- Annaly Capital Management Inc 0.18%
- Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc 0.18%
- RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd 0.17%
Only in IXG
143 total- HSBC HOLDINGS PLC 2.05%
- BANQUE ROYALE DU CANADA 1.65%
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. 1.48%
- COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA 1.43%
- Banco Santander, S.A. 1.20%
- Allianz SE 1.17%
- THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK 1.14%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. 0.92%
- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. 0.90%
- UBS Group AG 0.86%
Open FNCL or IXG at a brokerage
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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